1802 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff

  Events

• 4 May – The Golden Horns of Gallehus are stolen.

  Births

• 19 September – Frederik Theodor Kloss, painter

  Deaths

• 13 February – Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice
• 8 February – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher
• 24 August – Niels Ditlev Riegels, historian, journalist and pamphleteer
• 4 October – Niels Brock, merchant
• 17 December – Johannes Wiedewelt, sculptor
• 27 December – Jens Juel, painter